Ski holidays in Austria
I was back in the UK and part of the world record breaking ski chain yesterday at the Chill Factore in Manchester. There is nothing like beating a world record with a bunch of fellow skiers on a Wednesday morning - it proved to be far more difficult than most people thought and we only [...]
What a job - skiing between mountain huts getting beer and cake prices!
Everyone who has travelled (and I mean everyone) has inevitably been drawn into price comparisons with home prices as well as previous excursions – you hear it in every après ski bar, mountain restaurant, lift ticket office queue, everywhere. I was as shocked [...]
Josh made his first real trips into the heart of Austrian skiing with a day combining visits to St Anton am Arlberg and Ischgl – two of the places he is likely to spend some time if all goes to plan. St Anton was abuzz with work on the new Rendlbahn ski lift and you [...]
I have been in contact today with the Arlberg Bergbahnen and the Apartment La Vita in St Anton and things are moving fast on the new Rendlbahn. The old Rendlbahn that has run since 1974 is now fully demolished and work is underway to build the new base station at the existing bus terminal close [...]
Back from an enjoyable day on the Hintertux Glacier yesterday, with great early summer skiing under blue skies and still with a great cover of snow. The Hintertux Glacier freestyle park was in full flow yesterday with a multinational mix of skiers and snowboarders taking advantage of the sunny weather of soft snow for landings. [...]
Even at the end of May the Stubai Glacier is boasting 3m of snow after a winter that just never seemed to stop snowing. A couple of lifts were closed for scheduled maintenance yesterday on the Stubai Glacier but the ski area still comprised over 30km of ski pistes and whilst the snow got heavy [...]
For all those who have booked a Christmas or New Year ski holiday in Austria then conditions will be about as good as any time in the last decade for the time of year. The start to the winter has been superb and it is snowing as I write in Innsbruck. The local mountains have [...]
So after some great glacier skiing the action has moved down the mountain and already there have been some really incredible powder days. Ischgl over last weekend was really quite outstanding. The snowfall over the previous week gave way to clear skies on Saturday and there were some truly great sections. We skied the lower [...]